Learn WebApp Development Together - Weekly Study Group!

We are a weekly study group, coming together to improve our skills as full-stack WebApp developers. We work on project and have weekly talks to stay abreast of the latest trends and newest technologies.

**Go to our groups website, www.webapp-builders.com to vote on web-development presentation topics that interest you. Come watch live or get the video recording after our Meetup.**

For those of you who do not know, Electron is a framework that allows you to build Desktop Apps as easily as your WebApps and Mobile Apps. In fact, it already powers some of the apps you are familiar with: Slack's desktop app, Google Play Music Desktop app, and the Atom Editor many of us use every day are build with Electron.

This week: Brett has been gracious enough to offer to live code, as we use Electron to build our own **browser.** Should be a cool experiment to build the browser collaboratively with the designers of our group.

This Wednesday is our joined Viewport Meetup (Meetup.com/Viewport) with our WebApp-Builders Meetup (Meetup.com/WebApp-Builders) so we thought it would be a good week to to focus on the one screen we (as web developers) rarely have access to: the desktop. Now, given technologies like Electron are coming around, should make it much easier to control our entire user's experience, with Web, Mobile and now Desktop.See you this Wednesday!

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Weekly Agenda:7:00pm: Discuss Projects and Code Review, How Do I Series8:00pm: Break9pm: Wrap up

* WebApp-Builders' How Do I Series is our *weekly* presentation on web-related development topics interesting to the group. You can vote on upcoming presentations at: www.webapp-builders.com.

Note on Experience Level: We are open to all developers -- please come join us! However, this group is intended as a intermediate (and up) group.

We are a weekly study group, coming together to improve our skills as full-stack WebApp developers. We study together to keep sharp, code together, and stay abreast of the latest trends and technologies.

Share best-practices with developers building WebApps using the latest backend MVC (MV*) frameworks, together with the latest front-end frameworks. Our environment is very welcoming, both to senior developers as well aspiring full-stack developers alike.

Note on Experience Level: We are open to all developers -- please come join us! However, this group is intended as a intermediate (and up) group. If you are a beginner, please feel free to join, but we also have a "Beginners Rails" group where we start from HTML & CSS and work our way through tutorials such as Hartl's Rails Tutorial: (https://www.railstutorial.org). Our Beginners Rails Study Group: http://www.meetup.com/LA-Eastside-Ruby-Rails-Study-Group

Please feel free to come to both!

If you've already done tutorials such as Hartl's Rails Tutorial or gone to one the "Bootcamps" such as General Assembly, this is a great group to maintain your skills, keep you up-to-date with software industry best practices, and explore fresh technologies as they emerge.

We are a technically diverse, curious group of developers jumping into web technologies including full-stack frameworks, front-end framework, and build tools as well as DevOps.

Some of the Web Application Frameworks we are looking at:

Laravel (PHP) Rails5 Django Drupal 8 Symfony2 Flask Node.js Koa

JavaScript Technologies: React Angular Vue.js Backbone Ember JQuery

Much focus on DevOps and build tools.

AND many more...

Most of the discussion will be around Rails, but any and all are welcome.

*This group is meant for developers. Beginners through professionals are welcome, but please come prepared to learn. We love participation!

**The is not a place to pitch your business ideas, nor for recruitment.